About the Book

National award winning educator John Chapman takes you on a series of factual, humorous and insightful road trips in this autobiographical anthology of illustrated ballads and backstories.

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A son of Scottish immigrants, the author a product of a middle class white bread first generation college experience, armed with a passion for social change and justice pursues meaning seeking adventures in ghetto schools and into the grinding poverty of reservation life during a turbulent time of war and protest.

You'll travel along side the author, up and down the interstate, looking for meaning and maturity while endeavoring to make a positive change in the world and trying to become, " a man for others."

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